La Femme spent much of 2020 releasing a string of singles, saying that a new album was on the way. That's finally been announced and the Parisian band's third album, Paradigmes, will be out April 2 via the band’s own… Read More
In addition to the new Minnesota Hardcore docu-series and other great hardcore documentaries (like American Hardcore, the DC-based Salad Days, and the LA-based The Decline of Western Civilization Pt 1), there's a new Detroit hardcore doc out now called Dope,… Read More
Mary McCartney, daughter of Paul McCartney, has been announced as the director of a brand new feature-length documentary on the iconic Abbey Road Studios where The Beatles made most of their albums. If These Walls Could Sing is produced by John… Read More
Fruit Bats have announced their ninth album, The Pet Parade, which will be out March 5 via Merge Records. Eric D Johnson enlisted his Bonny Light Horseman bandmate Josh Kaufman to produce, and he says the album celebrates "the beauty and absurdity… Read More
The 1975 had been scheduled to spend 2020 on tour with Phoebe Bridgers and beabadoobee, supporting their most recent album, the great Notes on a Conditional Form. Of course, COVID put a stop to that, and now the band have… Read More
It’s about time for the general public to invest in Bree Runway. Perhaps you’ve already heard of the genre-hopping 28-year-old Hackney-bred singer-songwriter-rapper after seeing her name appear on the highly coveted BBC Sound of… longlist for 2021. Or maybe you… Read More
Fran Lebowitz is an exceptionally gifted user of words who admits she is only motivated to leave her bookish isolation and open her big mouth when she needs money. I was psyched for her inevitable next project when I first… Read More
The family of Beach Slang vocalist and guitarist James Alex have responded to allegations of emotional abuse made against him by the band's former manager Charlie Lowe. The family's statement says that the band has broken up and that James… Read More
Jon Schaffer, the leader and guitarist of Tampa metal band Iced Earth, is being sought by police and the FBI as a "person of interest" in the riots at the US Capitol on Wednesday (1/6), where he was identified in… Read More
The title of Steve McQueen’s five-part series, Small Axe (BBC in the UK, Amazon Prime in the US), is a powerful, political homonym. Formally, each part of the series is itself a small axe, working to tear down the dominant… Read More